undewater basket weaving (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

> "Moose"

FWIW, during The Occupation, 1945-19sixty-whenever, GI slang, _moose_,
"random Japanese girl or young woman," was said by scholarly sources
of the time to be a shortening of Japanese _musume_.

Possible connection?
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-Wilson
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